Auburn Adventist Academy - Rainier Vista Yearbook (Auburn, WA)

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year, and the kind, faithful service rendered us, have bound us to them by unseverable cords. We especially want to thank our faculty of this past year for their words of counsel and help in time of trouble. Many times have they been found in their class rooms poring over papers and notebooks after we have retired. Why? Because they have our interest at heart. They are glad to sacrifice their time, to forego their pleasures, in order to help us. We do appreciate this service, and we, as students, have wandered over the campus with our various faculty members, have walked through the corridors of this institution with them, and have been with them in their classrooms day after day. They have imparted to us many high ideals of principle and truth, which will remain with us the rest of our lives. They will be as guiding posts along life’s highway, or as Northern Stars which the weary mariners anxiously view when the waters are troubled. We are glad for the time we have spent at the Academy, and for the friendships we have made with both fellow-students and instructors. We feel that this last year marks one rung in the ladder of success, and we want to give our teachers the honor due them, that they may know that we appreciate their work. Eugene Jeorgenson Seven

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(Jin ' appreciation of (Our Jfantltu Will H. Hayes says, “It is not so much the length of the steps as the direction,” and how true that statement is. Two men may start out to attain the same goal. They may have similar dispositions, appreciate the same things, in fact appear to be similar in every respect, but in attempting to reach the same goal we find that they are very unlike, for the one attains his goal, while the other fails. Why is it that we are or have been in a Christian school while our classmates of yesterday have been going to High School? Why is it that we are preparing to be Ambassadors of the Great King, while others are preparing for places of renown and self-aggrandizement? Let us pause a moment in reflection. Perhaps some of you would say that it is the experiences we go through and the influences we are placed under in our early life that make us what we are, and this is true to a certain degree. If we are born of godly parents, they will exert an influence upon us at all times for that which is good. Thus as we grow up to young manhood and womanhood the influences thus exerted upon us by our parents will go with us through life wherever we may go or whatever circumstances we may be placed under. There is another phase which also must be mentioned, and that is that of receiving a Christian education, which is the second powerful radiator of influence in our lives. Let us turn from the general to the specific. Passing over a span of years we find ourselves at Western Washington Academy, members of the class of 1925. Why? Because of the influence of parents, friends, and teachers. We as a class of 1925 feel that we cannot express in fit words the real value of the help we have received during each year spent here. The advice we have received of our instructors, year by Six

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iFamltu H. H. HAMILTON Principal and Manager ELDER C. A. WYMAN Bible, Agriculture and Baking WALTER BEACH Preceptor, History and Spanish GEORGIA HEATON English and Sewing Eight